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Proof of Existence — original address-encoded genesis

Written to the chain on 01 Jun 2013, block 238,958.

Block
238,958
Written
01 Jun 2013
Size
32 B
Format
UNKNOWN
Transactions
1

About this artifact

The original Proof of Existence encoding (Araoz & Ordano, 2013), predating the DOCPROOF OP_RETURN method. 115 transactions share this exact signature (2 one-satoshi P2PKH outputs = 32-byte hash + 8-byte zero pad), forming a clean service lifecycle from 2013-06 through 2014-02 that stops precisely when PoE migrated to OP_RETURN (standardized in Bitcoin Core 0.9, March 2014). Block 238958 is the earliest. Self-discovered; not yet chain-verified.

How it was stored

A normal pay-to-public-key-hash output contains a 20-byte public-key hash. A data uploader can put arbitrary 20-byte chunks in that field instead. To the network it looks like many ordinary-looking outputs, but the “addresses” are fake because nobody knows a private key whose public key hashes to those bytes.

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Proof · 1 transaction

Verified against the chain

Every byte shown here was read from these transactions. Open one in a block explorer to check it yourself.

Addresses
13aD8v36JDv6D2RcKthVQJukRsJL2b4AV3 · 1CP3BTdj3fiVhmNrToDRAxNdSXyRLCds8n